Add a User to Your Academic Course
1. Once you have logged into your Blackboard account, click the course you want to add a user to.
2. Below Course Management, click “Users and Groups”.
3. Click “Users”.
4. Click “Find Users to Enroll”.
5. Click “Browse”.
6. Click the down arrow the right of Username.
7. Select “Last Name”.
8. Enter user’s last name in the text field.
9. Select the user’s name and then click “Submit”.
10. Select the role you want the user to have.
The choices are:
- Participant = Read Only Access to Content & ability to Post in the Discussion Boards - no gradebook, no tests
- Instructor = full control as Co-Instructor
- Course Copier = Ability to *only* course copy content over to another course
- Teaching Assistant = early access, full Grade Book and they don't show up as a student in the Grade Book
- Course Builder = has access to most areas of the course. This role is appropriate for an assistant who shouldn't have access to student grades. If the course is unavailable to students, a course builder can still access the course. The course builder can't remove an instructor from a course.
11. Make sure that Yes is selected for the Enrollment Availability.
12. Click “Submit”.
User has been successfully added to your course with the role you provided him or her with.